On: The Failed Commodification of Technical Work

[booleandilemma]

The problem is that beyond the boilerplate we aren't solving commodity problems most of the time.

The only people that see it is a problem are the ones that wish programmers were commoditized. Your complexity is my salary.

[pixl97 → booleandilemma]

That complexity is how companies typically differentiate their product, generally purposely to keep it from interoperability with other software so their entire business is not commodified.

Just look at the IOT space to see this in play.

[TeMPOraL → booleandilemma]

> Your complexity is my salary.

Then your salary paid out of broken window fallacy.

But that's fine. All the nice, humane things happen where the market optimized things a little bit, but not too much.